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Table 2

Deaths of ill travelers returning from Africa who were seen at GeoSentinel clinic sites, March 1997–May 2011*

Patient no.

Age, y/sex

Diagnosis

Region

Exposure country

Travel reason

Expatriate

1

66/M

Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Severe and complicated, noncerebral

Western

Burkina Faso

Business

No

2

68/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Eastern

Kenya

Tourism

No

3

50/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Western

Ghana

Business

Yes

4

61/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Western

Sierra Leone

Business

No

5

4/M

Pneumonia, bacterial, lobar

Eastern

Tanzania,

Accompanying parent on business

No

6

48/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Western

Ghana

VFR

No

7

47/M

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pulmonary and extrapulmonary

Western

Unknown

VFR

No

8

57/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Western

Liberia

Missionary/volunteer/ researcher/aid worker

No

9

30/F

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Central

Equatorial Guinea

Business

Yes

10

53/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, noncerebral

Central

Angola

Business

No

11

40/M

Malaria, P. falciparum. Severe and complicated, cerebral

Central

Angola

Business

No

*Three patients with malaria who died did not receive chemoprophylaxis, 1 received mefloquine, and data were missing for the remaining 5 travelers. The United Nations geoscheme was used to classify Africa into subregions (5). VFR, visiting friends or relatives.

1Contributing members of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network are listed at the end of this article.

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